cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60263799
Europe’s most famous technology law, the GDPR, is next on the hit list as the European Union pushes ahead with its regulatory killing spree to slash laws it reckons are weighing down its businesses.
The European Commission plans to present a proposal to cut back the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR for short, in the next couple of weeks. Slashing regulation is a key focus for Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as part of an attempt to make businesses in Europe more competitive with rivals in the United States, China and elsewhere.
The GDPR is one of the regulations that actually seems to help on a daily basis.
23andMe is going bankrupt and now a good part of the US is having their DNA sold to the highest bidder.
Cool, money is more important than freedom anyway./s
It’s super easy to be GDPR compliant. It just costs money.
The GDPR is definitely neither wits end, nor applied reasonably under all circumstances. I have my doubts that these “cutbacks” will be the adequate reforms however.
These cutbacks are completely stupid imho. The EU is undoing decades of good work by jumping on this dumb deregulation band wagon. I guess it was always run by a bunch of neoliberals…
As someone with a lot of time spent in Europe and the US over the last 30-40 years, it seems like Europe is often happy to jump on the bandwagon of America, they just want someone else to go first. I also think American music and cultural exports are spreading our cultural degeneracy around the world for a long time and Germans slurp it up. I really hope the better education system will immunize them against the worst of it, but the rise of the AfD makes me doubt.
happy to jump on the bandwagon of America, they just want someone else to go first
Like an engine that runs on FOMO?
What?!? Please no! Can someone explain to me how this will help the businesses, because I don’t see the downsides from GDPR?
they’ll be able to use our data in capitalist pig mode
Ban privacy invasive business practices instead of putting the burden on citizens to opt in/opt out. This is about rights of a European citizen not to be constantly under surveillance, not about consumers rights to sign away our rights in a contract.
I’m not European and even I despise von der Leyen. She’s one of the most cynical people on Earth.
So dumbing it down then? If privacy and security is built into your product and you’re not using people’s data for nefarious purposes its very easy to comply with.
Well, maybe they’ll get rid of the cookies banners /s.
Cookie banners are completely unnecessary as long as websites only use cookies for technically necessary purposes (e.g. login). The problem is that a lot of websites want to sell your data to hundreds or thousands of other companies. So yeah, we could cut back a lot of red tape there if we just outright banned that sale of data completely.
A problem is that some sites that don’t need cookie banners use them anyway due to a poor understanding of the law and excess of caution.
Cookie banners are not mandated by GDPR. It’s an unrelated piece of law.
Too bad :-(
GDPR is a good goal, but the implementation is hell. There has to be a way to make well intentioned policies not turn into the nightmare fuel that it inevitably always turns into.
When my nephew was young, it was impossible for him to go to bed on time. Just impossible! He tried nothing and it didn’t help! Please tell me that’s not what’s happening to the GDPR.
Implementation is easy. It requires respect for human beings though.
It my personal experience I found it all extremely convoluted… And I like gdpr
